Fault Lines

The Currys  

• Lyrics

  Does it hit you like a freight train
  Does it burn you like fire
  Does it empty you from inside
  Like a spoonful of desire
  Do you rage in opposition
  Do you privately admire

  I knew you as a child
  When the world’s one big surprise
  I knew you in our school days
  We’re all fighting for our lives
  And as we grew into the young men
  Staking claims and choosing sides

  All these fault lines they split us through and through
  Wash them out and is there somewhere I’ll find you
  All these fault lines

  Snake eyes at the first toss
  And you lit out for the hills
  Everybody wants to know how good
  That goddamn good life feels
  Every outlet sparks a heart attack
  Every screen obscures far more than it reveals

  All these fault lines they split us through and through
  Wash them out and is there somewhere I’ll find you
  All these fault lines

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Good or Bad

The Currys  

• Lyrics

  It’s freezing out, I’m feeling paper thin
  Unload it all just to pack it up again
  Another night sleeping on a motel floor
  Christmas tree taped up to the bathroom door

  I don’t know if it’s good or bad
  I feel my way
  Learn the words enough to sing them back
  Till they don't mean a thing

  A momentary high can light a fire in me
  Keeping me moving to and from where I want to be
  The mountains and the valleys and the rivers we’ve crossed
  For stress-cracked, stained glass stations of the cross

  I don’t know if it’s good or bad
  I feel my way
  Learn the words enough to sing them back
  You can sing with me

  Keeping time, another night

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Gulf Coast Home

The Currys  

• Lyrics

  I like to see the rubber lap the miles
  Cross the state line with a summer smile
  The road ahead, the past I left behind me
  Same parts troubled man and mother's child
  A highway garden grown mighty wild
  There's just one place that seems to recognize me

  I wanna go to my gulf coast home
  Where the pines and palms together
  Sing the songs I used to know
  As I was born so may I die
  Beneath this watercolor sky
  And forever roam
  My gulf coast home

  A pocketful of promises but no band
  No way to win a good woman's hand
  She made it clear that she could not stand beside me
  So I packed up my pride and went on the lam
  With too little sense and no plan
  Took a good long while for me to try and find me

  Now I wanna go to my gulf coast home
  Where the pines and palms together
  Sing the songs I used to know
  As I was born so may I die
  Beneath this watercolor sky
  And forever roam
  My gulf coast home

  My life, it flows like water down these highways
  Still I find no place to make a stand
  The rain runs in rivers right behind me
  To my native land

  I wanna go to my gulf coast home
  Where the pines and palms together
  Sing the songs I used to know
  As I was born so may I die
  Beneath this watercolor sky
  And forever roam
  My gulf coast home

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Susie Knows

The Currys  

• Lyrics

  Susie knows I'm not too fond,
  Of the way she ogles me when I play guitar,
  But hey, I love a pleasant conversation,
  So on Saturday after we played,
  With promise of spiked lemonade,
  She convinced me to join her in the basement

  Lie die die die
  There wasn't much of a fight
  Lie die die die
  When she turned out all the lights

  I was a cloud, excitement raining down,
  I was a bucket, running 'round this town,
  I was carelessly spilling everywhere,
  I didn't know I'd need to make it last,
  That wonder dies, and dreams are dashed,
  I was a child, the world was me

  Lie die die die
  Don't have the means or the right
  Lie die die die
  To stop the day turning to night

  What choice do you have but to choose love,
  In a dark place, in a dark place?
  When it feels like the lights are all giving up,
  I hope you choose love, hope you choose love.

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Los Angeles

The Currys  

• Lyrics

  Los Angeles won’t sleep tonight,
  She slips on peep-toe pumps,
  She stalks along these streets,
  I think I know just what she hunts:
  The shreds of my belief,
  The scraps that I’ve been dreaming up.
  Los Angeles, is it ever enough?

  A promised kiss, a will-o’-wisp,
  The fruit among the frost,
  So certain it was worth it
  When I don’t know what it costs.
  The land of the free
  And the home of all the lost:
  Los Angeles, are you saving my spot?

  Whoa

  The city sits electric in
  The jazz and jubilee.
  I know too well the magic of
  The spell she’s cast on me.
  Here I stand, hat in hand,
  Between the hills and sea.
  Los Angeles, will I ever be free?

  Whoa

  And if she flies I will
  Fashion wings
  And I’ll fly

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Oh Boy

The Currys  

• Lyrics

  Truly, I have made a wondrous world
  Truly, I have made a wondrous world
  Truly, I have made, I have shaped them from the clay
  And I shall set their hands to honest work

  Surely, life will bloom and gardens grow
  Surely, life will bloom and gardens grow
  Surely, life will bloom and its flowers will consume
  All the hate that they might ever know

  Oh no, amen, oh boy

  Verily, they sing a song of love
  Verily, they sing a song of love
  Verily, they sing, like a bell their voices ring
  And echo through the idle blue above

  Oh no, amen, oh boy

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Jose

The Currys  

• Lyrics

  I met Jose last night, down in the grocery line,
  He saw my candy corn, my pizza, and my wine,
  He said, I too was a tumbleweed, rolling on the floor,
  Now I've learned I am nothing, a rock on the shore.

  Tried to be polite, hear the man's advice,
  He jerked around, I think he thought he was dancing,
  And then he started chanting

  Curse your god, grab the wall,
  Nothing's gonna break your fall,
  Throw your coins down the well,
  Getting lucky in a cheap motel
  They’re no good at the gates of hell - 2nd and 4th times
  All you've done and all you've been,
  You won't ever get it back again.

  I left the store last night, a car was rolling past,
  Slammed into the median, Jose burst through the glass,
  He said, I'm not surprised by this, I’ve always been prepared,
  Then he opened up a beer as he flew through the air.

  Tried to be polite, hear the man's advice,
  He jerked around, I think he thought he was dancing,
  And then he started chanting

  Curse your god, grab the wall,
  Nothing's gonna break your fall,
  Throw your coins down the well,
  They’re no good at the gates of hell
  All you've done and all you've been,
  You won't ever get it back again.

  Staring at the bread crumbs you left behind,
  You're gonna strain your neck, you're gonna waste your time,
  Can't fit the whole world inside your head

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Fly on the Wall

The Currys  

• Lyrics

  Through the fall of the morning rain,
  A mountain range
  Stretching out,
  And now, the path doubles back toward town

  Heard rumor of a stream that flows,
  Calm and slow,
  And forms a pass
  Beneath the vast bed of soil and stone

  Would you go without a hint of what’s to come?

  Have you found your feet at last,
  In the rags and scraps,
  Or are you losing ground?
  Now, to be a fly on the wall of your breakdown

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Let's Get Drunk

The Currys  

• Lyrics

  Let’s get drunk tonight,
  Let’s forget that we’re spinning round the sun,
  And the rent is long past due tonight,
  Let’s have a few beers, wear our hearts on our sleeves,
  Talk shit 'bout our hometown, then never leave,
  Realize we’re attached to each other forever, you better believe,

  Let’s fall in love tonight,
  Let’s save all the big talk that’s too hard to talk,
  Let’s just walk tonight,
  Kiss me gently on my cheek, baby I need you, it’s been a long week,
  It’s been a long month, it’s been a long year,
  It’s been too long since I felt you here,

  La la la

  Hey, hey

  Let’s get drunk tonight,
  Let’s forget that we’re spinning round the sun,
  And the rent is long past due tonight,
  Let's pick up our friends and go for a drive
  Spend all our money at some seedy old dive,
  Let’s give up the next day, stay out til five,
  Forget the advice meant to keep us alive,
  Forget all the mean stuff your dad said to you,
  Forget that you broke down this afternoon,
  Those heartfelt promises no one intended to do...

  Let's get drunk

  La la la

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Anywhere Other Than

The Currys  

• Lyrics

  Mama’s on the front porch dreaming ‘bout a white horse when Daddy comes a-barreling through
  Lost his job to a computer now the local credit union says the subprime is overdue

  Sister’s got a plan she wants to make it if she can as the star of her reality
  Her boyfriend found a camera and a friend of a friend who says he’s happy filming her for free

  We’re in this together, lose or win
  Good times are bound to come around again
  Don’t ask me how, where, why or when but they always do
  On the very last minute of the very last day
  When the man up in the sky takes the pain away
  I never coulda been anywhere other than here with you

  Brother stays at home spending all his time alone he’s still running from the IEDs
  Our family ain’t impressed by post-traumatic stress, and depression ain’t a real disease

  So Mama hatched a scheme for us to make a little green selling Herbalife door-to-door
  A few thousand crates of multivitamin shakes and supplements from ceiling to floor

  We’re in this together, lose or win
  Good times are bound to come around again
  Don’t ask me how, where, why or when but they always do
  On the very last minute of the very last day
  When the man up in the sky takes the pain away
  I never coulda been anywhere other than here with you

  We’ll get rich quick
  We’ll move uptown
  We’ll live like kings
  No place to go but up
  When we’re already down

  Daddy takes it out on any bleeding heart around, you know there’s plenty o’ hurt to be shared
  Mama makes excuses but the God honest truth is Sister’s sleeping in intensive care

  We’re in this together, lose or win
  Good times are bound to come around again
  Don’t ask me how, where, why or when but they always do
  On the very last minute of the very last day
  When the man up in the sky takes the pain away
  I never coulda been anywhere other than
  I never woulda been anywhere other than
  I never coulda been anywhere other than here with you

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Observations from a Dance Hall

The Currys  

• Lyrics

  Thought nothing of it, go and dance with him
  He’s a little pudgy and his arms are thin
  Probably pushing forty and his nose is more of a snout

  Then he swiveled his hips and pulled you in
  Just to spin you right back out again
  Praying for his back to break when he dips you on down

  What am I supposed to do
  When I just can’t dance the way he can with you?

  Well, I’ve got some moves, but not that many
  Until tonight they always seemed like plenty
  Once or twice I’ve been told I can really get down

  But now the beat’s a little fast, the bass is too loud,
  Plus I tweaked my ankle, I should go sit down
  I’m no wallflower, baby, but I ain’t no clown

  What am I supposed to do
  When I just can’t dance the way he can with you?

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Soon Enough

The Currys  

• Lyrics

  Just wanna feel it out, learn to doubt, all the nice things I’ve been told about,
  The things everybody wants but nobody ever really has,
  So can you help me please, humor me, let me see,
  Is there anything out there for me?

  What’s the difference, what’s the difference being happy over here, or happy over there?
  Where’s the beauty, is the beauty in commitment or in finding one true thing,
  Why the interest? You’ll be combing through a hundred smiling heads, I know you will,

  Soon enough

  Where’d ya come from? Were you released into this world with love and hope and intention,
  Where ya going? Do you fight through the fray or tremble and sway through the air like a worn kite?
  What’s the difference? I’ll find you in the wind, soon enough,

  Soon enough,
  Open up the faucet til you’ve had enough,
  Don’t you know that we’re all drinking from the same cup,
  Gotta trust our hearts are gonna filter out the bad stuff

  Just wanna feel it out, learn to doubt, all the nice things I’ve been told about,
  The things everybody wants but nobody ever really has,
  So can you help me please, humor me, let me see,
  Is there anything out there for me?

  I’ll meet ya Sunday, go ahead and pick a nice spot, we can have a beer,
  Can’t meet at my place, I live in a van with my cousins,
  What’s the difference, I’ll be a few hundred miles away, away

  Soon enough

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Pin You Down

The Currys  

• Lyrics

  Dirty rails and the brakeman humming
  The cruel, oppressive heat
  Late morning crowd, shirt tails clinging to the seats
  If this ain’t where you're going
  Surely it’s a start
  Nobody’s taking their time
  Getting what they want

  There’s nothing wrong with the way you love, babe
  In and of itself
  Your world is young and new
  And leading you somewhere else
  Who could hold it against you, honey?
  Who would even try?
  Hasn’t done much good anyhow
  Eating me alive

  Keep pushing at the rate you’re going
  Each town’s a canvas calling out
  Shedding lovers in layers as they try to pin you down

  Same dress for two weeks running
  In the same broken heels
  Always putting your best foot forward
  Just like standing still
  Anything for you now, baby
  Anything at all
  Rich men are never ugly
  When they’re getting you what you want

  Keep pushing at the rate you’re going
  Each town’s a canvas calling out
  Shedding lovers in layers as they try to pin you down

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Garden

The Currys  

• Lyrics

  You were sitting in the garden
  Eyes squinting against the sun
  With your head slightly tilted
  Were you thinking about someone?
  Or listening to music
  Inaudible to me
  On this side of the glass

  I was tempted to join you
  Bring you coffee, bring you tea
  Ask how you were feeling
  Have you smile up at me
  You could tell me ‘bout your lovers
  The old ones or the new
  It strikes me that I never thought to ask

  But I stayed, I stayed
  Not wanting to disturb you
  Or ruin my view

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